What are we waiting for? What awaits us? While often dismissed as a period of wastefulness orlost time, waiting may also intensify experience and become a condition in which to considerquestions of modernity, aesthetic process, politics, erotics and the tempos of everyday life.

Amid other theorizations of time, history and eventfulness, waiting offers a thematic axis aroundwhich conversation among scholars from a wide range of disciplines and critical perspectives canemerge. How can we unsettle the received divide between waiting and action? Or given thisdivide, how can we re-think the relationship between the two? Beyond (in)activity, how mightwaiting also be conceived of as a mode of attention or practice?